US-Iran war permanently damaged Amazon's AWS infrastructure in the Middle East

[Alfonso Maruccia]

What just happened? Earlier this year, Iran threatened Big Tech companies, warning that it could target and destroy their facilities in the Middle East in retaliation for US-Israeli bombing of the country. Now, Amazon appears to be tacitly confirming that Tehran did indeed destroy some crucial IT infrastructure belonging to the US giant.

Amazon recently confirmed that Iran's threats against US tech corporations were all but real. The company provided a few updates on the health of its AWS services in the Middle East, stating that some of its facilities have been damaged to the point of becoming completely inoperable for the foreseeable future.

The situation is particularly dire in the Bahrain AWS Region (me-south-1), which was allegedly destroyed by Iranian drone and missile strikes earlier this year. Amazon has now said that the damage to its cloud infrastructure spans multiple Availability Zones (AZs), exceeding the company's ability to withstand disruptions affecting regional and multi-AZ services.

"After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this region," the company said.

Amazon defines an Availability Zone as a major node in the global AWS infrastructure. A Zone includes one or more physical data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity within a single AWS Region. The me-south-1 Region was damaged to the point that its service can no longer be restored, and customers are advised to move their cloud operations to other Regions – preferably in Europe, or at least far away from Iran's reach.

Amazon has also confirmed that AWS infrastructure is experiencing multiple "operational issues" in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE Region (me-central-1) had its data center resources destroyed in the mec1-az2 Availability Zone, while the company is trying to recover other regional and zonal resources hosted in the disrupted mec1-az1 and mec1-az3 Availability Zones.

The disruption affecting the UAE's me-central-1 Region began in March, and most customers have already relocated their cloud products elsewhere while restoring backups or copying data that remained accessible. Amazon is apparently trying to replace or rebuild the damaged infrastructure in the UAE, so there could be positive updates on the AWS service dashboard over the next few months.

After Iran warned tech companies that it would target their IT infrastructure in the Middle East, AWS and other cloud giants warned customers that they could lose their data – and potentially their businesses – without a backup plan. Amazon asked its customers to enact their disaster recovery plans, redirecting cloud resources and internet traffic to different Regions outside the Middle East warzone.

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US-Iran war permanently damaged Amazon's AWS infrastructure in the Middle East

 

[OortCloud]

Difficult to have any sympathy for Jeff after his horrible toadying to Trump when he got back in power and his sudden change of allegiance. There's no low these CEOs won't stoop to in order to keep the shareholders happy, even chumming up with criminals and sex offenders. Now the Kiddy Fiddler in Chief has embroiled the US in another bungled war and everyone is paying the price. I think Jeff and Donald can probably afford it more than the millions barely making ends meet.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Hey I need @Endymio to show up and tell me how this is all Trump Derangement Syndrome and we got this one in the bag, 4-6 weeks tops. Iran definitely is not digging out its nuclear material and all is well with the oil & gas market.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

It's almost as if war is bad!

 

[The Talking Tech]

This is what the U.S government caused for messing around with the wrong country.

Now everything we consume and use is going up in price....


At least with Biden administration we only had to worry about the price of eggs...now we have to worry about the price of that and everything else.

 

[The Talking Tech]

Hey I need @Endymio to show up and tell me how this is all Trump Derangement Syndrome and we got this one in the bag, 4-6 weeks tops. Iran definitely is not digging out its nuclear material and all is well with the oil & gas market.

For people like him everything is an excuse to call it a "Trump Derangement Syndrome" but in reality that's more like their "MAGA Delusional Spectrum"

 

[Vulcanproject]

I like how Trump is best friends with Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping. Or he thinks he is. The Russians are at the centre of co-ordination between this axis. The Iranians help them, they help the Iranians, the North Koreans help Russia, Russia gives North Korea new tech and hard currency. The Russians are supported entirely by Chinese trade, which makes China stronger. The Chinese are getting a bunch of cheap Russian natural resources, helping Russia destabilise Europe while gaining political influence throughout Central Asia. China is winning so hard they can't believe their luck.

The obvious answer to all this is to go after the Russians and break them in Ukraine. That is the wide open goal and opportunity. Bring down Putin's government indirectly with severe Russian strategic defeat. Break up these ties with American enemies. Collapse the network from the middle.

Instead Trump is playing footsie with these guys. Pulled support to Ukraine. Destroying the network of American allies that is the main American advantage over China. Threatening to break up NATO. Hurting friendly economies. Utter chaos.

 

[Hexic]

This is what the U.S government caused for messing around with the wrong country.

Now everything we consume and use is going up in price....


At least with Biden administration we only had to worry about the price of eggs...now we have to worry about the price of that and everything else.

The wrong country? Lol

Everyone in the ME hates Iran, they are the regional bullies.

You’re right about the Biden administration, though. We wouldn’t have to worry about Iran with him in office. He was such a lame duck, he’d let Iran do what they wanted.

 

[m4a4]

Well, I'd imagine that if the world stopped Iran from being a terrorist-funding, authoritarian, chaotic, nuclear-weapon-ambitious regime in the Middle East, this wouldn't even be a problem.

Otherwise, I can't feel all that bad about it. And I'm sure Amazon could throw money at the problem and get things back up and running sooner if they wanted to.

 

[poshflamingos]

Difficult to have any sympathy for Jeff after his horrible toadying to Trump when he got back in power and his sudden change of allegiance. There's no low these CEOs won't stoop to in order to keep the shareholders happy, even chumming up with criminals and sex offenders. Now the Kiddy Fiddler in Chief has embroiled the US in another bungled war and everyone is paying the price. I think Jeff and Donald can probably afford it more than the millions barely making ends meet.

Fascinating how his supporters were all about "no more wars", "lower the national debt", "release the epstein files" and "I can't afford eggs" during the campaign, only for the elected clown to do literally the opposite of all of those things. I wonder if those supporters now feel as stupid as they are, or if they don't care about being swindled on all of those things so long as the brown people keep getting removed.
Americans really are a special breed.

 

[The Talking Tech]

The wrong country? Lol

Everyone in the ME hates Iran, they are the regional bullies.

You’re right about the Biden administration, though. We wouldn’t have to worry about Iran with him in office. He was such a lame duck, he’d let Iran do what they wanted.

And yet Iran still doing whatever they want even destroying the U.S economy thanks to this administration...lol

 

[The Talking Tech]

Remember when this president said it that the Iran was would last only a few weeks....lol

Remember when his administration said gas prices would comes down by the end of the summer.....lol

Remember when this maga was complaining about the price of eggs and gas at $3.00 per gallon now $4.50 at the cheapest.

We so wish could to turn the back in time.....

 

[Theinsanegamer]

It's hilarious how finally, after 10 years of crying and filling pampers about how bad Orange Man is, we FINALLY have an instance where Orange Man actually did a Bad, and the comments are full of the same people still crying about how others call them out over screaming Orange Man Bad for a decade, instead of taking the W for once in their lives.

 

[ActualViking]

This is on Donald, which of course means it is on the US since he is the president.

Now I won't cry for Amazon, but it is painful at the pump for sure and that is also on the US. So really the US should reimburse the world for the mess it created by engaging in an illegal war, not to mention it needs to somehow atone for all the deaths and suffering in Iran.

I'm guess Donald send the US military to attack Iran either to feel powerful or because of some bribe, however only two things has really come out of the war - one bad and one good. It is helping Russia as they get more for their oil, something I am sure Putin is praising his American lap dog for. And it is pushing the world to faster implement the use of renewable energy, energy saving and EV's - that is all a good thing only Donald tries to offset that by having the EPA remove restriction on polluting by burning coal and gas.

 

[3ogdy]

The power of Allah. Mix that with enriched uranium, put it in the middle east (of all places) and watch what happens.
Idiocy, fanaticism, extremism, intolerance, manipulation, low IQ among the population, hate.
All put together with missiles ready to fulfill what terrorists think is Allah's will.

Maybe financing and supporting terrorists in Yemen, Lebanon and the Israeli territory of Gaza could fix that? We should ask Iran for help.

Oh, wait...

 

[ActualViking]

Well, I'd imagine that if the world stopped Iran from being a terrorist-funding, authoritarian, chaotic, nuclear-weapon-ambitious regime in the Middle East, this wouldn't even be a problem.

Iran was moving in the right direction, not in straight line but things were improving. The action of Donald changed that, first by him unilaterally ending the internationally agreed no-nukes deal with Iran, likely because he could not deal with it being made by his opponents, and then by the naive attacks on Iran which has put us where we are now.

 

[netman]

US-Iran war permanently damaged Amazon's AWS infrastructure in the Middle East​

Good.... If they continue allowing US to attack Iran... Their under sea internet cables would be cut...!

 

[m4a4]

Iran was moving in the right direction, not in straight line but things were improving. The action of Donald changed that, first by him unilaterally ending the internationally agreed no-nukes deal with Iran, likely because he could not deal with it being made by his opponents, and then by the naive attacks on Iran which has put us where we are now.

How was Iran moving in the right direction? By pretending to be abiding by those "deals"? By "removing" protesters from protesting? By graciously forgoing internet? By funding their buddies in the surrounding areas to "make peace"?

And how high of enriched Uranium did they have to get to before you think that they would've stopped? 70%? 80%? 89%? 89.5%..?

 

[toooooot]

Kinda interesting about the evolution of drones, they make the entire world less stable. And when it comes to such unstable places like the Middle-East, it means that anyone can screw up anyone for whatever reason. No business, especially the big ones, is safe now. And to create a damage of hundreds of millions dollars only takes 10-20k dollars.

 

[ActualViking]

The wrong country? Lol

Everyone in the ME hates Iran, they are the regional bullies.

You’re right about the Biden administration, though. We wouldn’t have to worry about Iran with him in office. He was such a lame duck, he’d let Iran do what they wanted.

Biden wasn't lame, he was a smart guy although he did not do great at the end of his term. What he did for the US and the world was so much better that what the corrupt rapist* in the current WH is doing.

The international nuclear control deal that was setup with Iran was working well, but Donald could not deal with anything without his name being a success so he unilaterally killed the deal. And then he went on to make all sort of claims, having the US bomb Iran and then later on go to war with them.

*Yes, he is convicted although in civil court not criminal court due to the statute of limitation.